Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine

Drawing upon more than one hundred laboratory experiments, Dr. Dossey examines clinical data showing that focused intent can alter the growth of bacteria, protect red blood cells, and accelerate wound repair.

Hospital studies in cardiology substantiate this phenomenon in acute patient care, recording significantly reduced complications among coronary admissions remembered in daily intercessory prayer.

Proving prayer to be as valid and vital a healing tool as drugs or surgery, the bestselling author of Meaning & Medicine and Recovering the Soul offers a bold integration of science and spirituality.

• Evidence-Based: Follow a clear historical framework dividing therapy into three eras, tracing the transition from Newtonian mechanics and psychosomatic medicine into a nonlocal science that operates across global distances.
• Case Studies: Examine documented clinical remissions alongside trials with meprobamate and cardiac placebos, showing how a doctor's unspoken conviction can measurably shape therapeutic recovery.
• Daily Practices: Discover the surprising laboratory findings from Spindrift testing on germinating seeds and stressed mold cultures, revealing why open-ended surrender often proves far more potent than commanding a specific outcome.
• Meditation: Learn how physiological calming, focused quietude, and unconscious processes during sleep bypass waking ego defenses to initiate deep biological repair.
• Also by This Author: PRAYER IS GOOD MEDICINE and Be Careful What You Pray For, You Might Just Get It.